DP049

Dawn's Early Night!

DP049

EP515

ポケモンコンテスト！ヨスガ大会!!
Pokémon Contest! Yosuga Convention!!

First broadcast

Japan	October 4, 2007
United States	January 26, 2008

English themes

Opening	Diamond and Pearl
Ending

Japanese themes

Opening	Together
Ending	君のそばで〜ヒカリのテーマ〜(PopUp.Version)

Credits

Additional credits
Animation	Team Iguchi
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	牧野行洋 Yukihiro Makino
Assistant director	秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Animation director	木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita

Screenshots on Filb.de
Early reports credited Yukihiro Makino as both storyboarder and assistant director.

Dawn's Early Night! (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト！ヨスガ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Yosuga Convention!!) is the 49th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 515th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 4, 2007 as part of a two-hour special alongside DP050, and in the United States on January 26, 2008.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Dawn entered the Hearthome City Contest, only to find herself up against most of her rivals: Zoey, Jessie (disguised as Jessalina), and Nando. Dawn was naturally determined to win her second ribbon, however it appeared that instead of a ribbon Dawn would instead have to learn a painful lesson about losing...

Major events

Ash learns that the Hearthome City Gym Leader is away.
The gang meet up with Zoey and Nando who are both also entering the Hearthome Contest.
Ash and company learn of the Hearthome City Tag Battle Competition to be hosted in Hearthome City from Nando which Ash and Brock decide to enter.
Dawn loses in the appeal round.
Nando defeats Jessie and Zoey and wins his second ribbon.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Trivia

Paul's Torterra, Ursaring and Weavile have been added to the opening credits.
The ending is omitted in the original broadcast, with the credits moved to the opening instead (scrolling from right to left).
Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and a instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~ are used as background music.
This marks the second time that a main character lost in the appeal round. The only previous time took an extreme amount of ignorance on the part of Jessie.
This episode is the first time Sinnoh's Pokémon Contests are referred to as Super Contests in the anime.
The episode's dub title is a slight corruption of a lyric from The Star-Spangled Banner. This is the second time such a reference is used, after O'er the Rampardos we Watched.
Fantina wasn't at the Gym in this episode and it did not have a replacement, despite the fact that leaving the Gym without a suitable replacement was one of the things that the Pokémon Inspection Agency can shut down a Gym for. However, they might not have authority in the Sinnoh region for them to handle this issue.